Entries by Norman Warwick

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HELLO DOLLY: THE ROCKSTAR.

For the project, Dolly Parton enlisted a number of the world’s most celebrated rock stars to perform new versions of their greatest hits. The result is a staggering tracklist that looks like it just stepped off the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Parton shines alongside Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, the last two surviving members of The Beatles, on a nostalgic rendition of their hit “Let It Be” that also features Peter Frampton and Mick Fleetwood. Her voice is a perfect match for The Police’s “Every Breath You Take,” with backing vocals provided by the band’s frontman and bassist, Sting, and meshes beautifully with Elton John on his soaring ballad “Don’t Let The Sun Go Down on Me.”

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YULETIDE COMES TO YAIZA

The crowd was perfectly behaved and strolled at an even pace around the Belen, shown at the top of the page.. An artificial, but artistically exquisite, Christmas Tree overlooked the procession, constantly changing shape and colour. The sound of the timples, guitars and some sort of bells, and the amazingly strong vocalists, not only rang right round  the square, but also I´m sure rang right to the outskirts of town.

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DYLAN AT THE PHILOSPHER´S  STONE

“THE great book of 2022….utterly extraordinary….not only one of the great books of the year, but of the past decade…It is unexpected in every way…a magnificent book of music criticism disguised as a memoir and a set of off-the-cuff fantasies and confidences…That’s its genius. It is not framed as a work of music criticism; it is a lifelong performer’s attempt to get deeply into a pop song panorama and a lifelong consumer of other singers’ takes as a member of their audiences. He is talking to the reader in a way that is unique and immediate and familiar to us. He is saying things that are fresh–even wild and radical–on every other page of the book…The book has gobsmacked me…In these pieces of unique music criticism, he’s doing something with his voice few of us ever imagined he would do…If the Swedes want to go ahead and give him still another Nobel Prize for Literature, I for one, will applaud vigorously. Let any possible objector read this book first.”

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